Attribute Information Items
The Attribute Information Items are the contents of the [attributes] property in the element information item. Although the attributes are presented in an order through the Attributes class, there is no expectation that this order reflects an order in the document or its DTD.
Property |
Callbacks |
Explanation |
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[namespace name] |
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[local name] |
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[prefix] |
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The QName (namespace-prefixed name) includes any
prefix available; for example, a QName
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[normalized value] |
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If you’re generating a stream of Infoset data programmatically, don’t forget to normalize these values correctly. The XML specification explains how to normalize this text; it mostly translates whitespace (but not character references) into space characters and eliminates unneeded spaces for values that aren’t CDATA. |
[specified] |
unavailable |
SAX2 does not distinguish between attribute values that were specified in document text and those that have been defaulted from a DTD. It’s likely that an upcoming extension API will provide this information. |
[attribute type] |
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For most types of attribute,
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